Tales from the front line in the hunt for the perfect SCART television for use with the MAME arcade game emulator.

Thursday, 5 July 2012

GroovyUME (MAME & MESS combined!)

Calamity (the man behind GroovyMAME) recently posted a build of GroovyUME which is a combined build of MAME and MESS featuring the modeline engine of GroovyMAME. I have to say, this is pretty damn cool! Along with all the usual GroovyMAME stuff (native resolutions and refresh rates) for arcade games, we can now play SNES, NES, Megardrive, C64, etc. games on our CRTs using the same amazing technology that allows for perfectly smooth scrolling and animation. Amazing!

As a side note, it's interesting to see SNES and Megadrive games running in progressive modes. Perhaps the purists would say that we should be playing these games in an interlaced mode (as would have been the case using a modulated signal from the original hardware) but they look pretty damn fine to me!

4 comments:

I am pretty sure the Mega Drive console outputs everything as a PROGRESSIVE video, no matter if I use RF, composite or RGB. Also my ZX Spectrum is progressive (RF only though). So, of course, you want to have all these games running at progressive modes. Interlaced picture sucks anyway (that's why I am not using Xbox for emulators) - too much flicker.

My mistake. I only ever played consoles using an RF modulator when I was a kid and certainly didn't know anything about progressive versus interlace. I always assumed everything was flickery and blurry back then but turns out I was wrong.